Soweto, a sprawling urban city, home to four million people, became an icon of the apartheid era, infamous around the world for its violence, filthy streets and rickety shacks. This is a description of life in Soweto, told from the resident's point of view.

Born in Soweto

History

Holland, Heidi

Africa

The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) L

"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." -The Economist With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin Group

Journalists Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts approached about 80 journalists and writers based in Johannesburg and asked them to write short pieces about the city in which they work and live. They did not specify form or style - the contributors were free to express themselves how ever they wanted to. Out of this has emerged 50-odd pieces of writing that reflect aspects of the city, idiosyncratic reactions to living and working here, appreciations of small and big things, some poems, some criticisms - all will find resonance with Joburg/Jozi residents and all will be enlightening and entertaining to visitors hoping to learn something about our metropolis. Amazingly, many of the contributors expressed how much they enjoy being in Joburg/Jozi - good news for a city that consistently suffers from bad press.

From Jo'Burg to Jozi

ROBERTS, ADAM

Travel

Penguin Global

"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." -The Economist With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin??Books

Journalists Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts approached about 80 journalists and writers based in Johannesburg and asked them to write short pieces about the city in which they work and live. They did not specify form or style - the contributors were free to express themselves how ever they wanted to. Out of this has emerged 50-odd pieces of writing that reflect aspects of the city, idiosyncratic reactions to living and working here, appreciations of small and big things, some poems, some criticisms - all will find resonance with Joburg/Jozi residents and all will be enlightening and entertaining to visitors hoping to learn something about our metropolis. Amazingly, many of the contributors expressed how much they enjoy being in Joburg/Jozi - good news for a city that consistently suffers from bad press.

From Jo'burg to Jozi: Stories About Africa's Infamous City

African Magic: Traditional Ideas That Heal A Continent

Africa's traditional beliefs - including ancestor worship, divination and witchcraft - continue to dominate its spiritual influences. Readers in search of a better understanding of the continent will be enriched by this book's timely exploration of sub-Saharan Africa's natural philosophy.

African Magic: Traditional Ideas that Heal A Continent

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The early African National Congress consisted mainly of a few educated and politically conscious blacks who made polite protests, fearful of offending white liberal sympathies. United under Nelson Mandela’s world status as the courageous symbol of the struggle of freedom, the ANC was the only internationally recognized organization capable of negotiating with the apartheid government to end the conflict in South Africa. A unique record of the men and women that formed South Africa’s democracy, Heidi Holland chronicles the organization’s painful evolution with special focus on Nelson Mandela and other key figures.

100 Years of Struggle: Mandela's ANC

Recounts the A.N.C.'s efforts to end apartheid, and describes the experiences of its jailed leader, Nelson Mandela

The Struggle: a History of the ANC

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

 "The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." -The Economist   With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African conti­nent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fight­er and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.

Viking Australia

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Born in Soweto

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

From Jo'Burg to Jozi

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter who Became a Tyrant

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

From Jo'burg to Jozi: Stories About Africa's Infamous City

African Magic: Traditional Ideas that Heal A Continent

100 Years of Struggle: Mandela's ANC

The Struggle: a History of the ANC

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant